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- 1 March 1961-3 April 1974 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence with, and on, individuals and with some organisations, including: Ann E Kaplan (senior research assistant at the Salk Institute from 1967) mainly relating to Kaplan's job applications and references after she left the Salk Institute; Professor Alfred H Katz (School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles) discussing issues raised in Bronowski's lectures on Surrealism and William Blake given at UCLA [Prophetic Eye lectures]; Milton Katz (Director of International Legal Studies, Law School, Harvard University) on visiting the Salk Institute (1968-69); letters of recommendation about Peter Kaye written by Bronowski; Bern Keating on the murder of Kitty Genovese; correspondence relating to Kay Whitcomb Keith applying for a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Gyorgy Kepes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning & Center for Advanced Visual Studies); Anthony R Kigallin (Department of English, The University of British Columbia) on Bronowski's memories of Malcolm Lowry; H Arthur Klein on his publication 'Measures and Men in the Making of Science' and on Robinson Jeffers; Charles Konigsberg discussing social and cultural consequences of technological change; Professor Jan Kott about Jozef Szajna; Nobuaki Kozaki (writing from Japan) on subjects including the prose of John Dryden and theories of Noam Chomsky; Reinhold J Krantz (Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Redlands, California) on Bronowski meeting 25 students for lunch and arranging a tour of the Salk Institute, with correspondence with George Derfer (Department of Philosophy, University of Redlands); Professor P O Kristeller (School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton) on meeting at the Renaissance Society and a potential Renaissance project.
Also includes a reprint of 'The Background to Edward Buchner's Discovery of Cell-Free Fermentation' by Robert Kohler and a booklet on the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The signature has been cut out of a letter from Dr Peter L Krohn, 20 June 1966.
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The booklet on the Center for Advanced Visual Studies was moved from Bronowski 3/5.
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'The Background to Edward Buchner's Discovery of Cell-Free Fermentation' by Robert Kohler was published in Journal of the History of Biology, Spring 1971, vol. 4, no. 1.